The Watch Serve the People Onlineinternet did not take kindly to a quip Donald Trump made about undocumented immigrants during Wednesday night's presidential debate.

Said Trump of his plan to remove undocumented immigrants from the United States: "We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out."

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The internet's reaction was brutal and immediate, with some people cracking jokes, some mocking Trump's poor Spanish pronunciation and some decrying the remark as a racist, trivializing attack on Mexican-Americans.


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But just so we're clear: "ombre" refers to colors that fade into one another. It is not "hombre," which is the Spanish word for "man."

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